Conference Hotel

Leadership Development Program
Sunday, Oct. 21., 5:30-6:30pm (free, but advance registration
is required)

Leading by Using Social Networks:
Facebook and Second Life

Second Life and Facebook offer different opportunities for group leaders.

Facebook is great for building a community presence that can be referenced at
anytime and provides more familiar forms of interaction such as messaging and
email. It only requires a computer with minimal capabilities. Second Life is a
3D virtual world that offers, among many other things, real-time meeting
capability and exciting new forms of interaction, though the technological
demands are higher. Attend this session for an overview about how each of these
social networking tools facilitates leadership.

Though only a few years only, Facebook is the largest social networking
community, with over 30 million members worldwide. Originating in academe, many
from the information professions are active on Facebook, and this holds
potential to help growth and interest of millennial-age and other new
professionals to become involved in professional organizations, should we reach
out to them and try to build virtual community. Pascal Calarco has set up an
ASIS&T group on Facebook, now over 130 members throughout the world. He will
talk about this group and some of the virtual communities of interest to library
and information science, and how we can possibly leverage this community to
identify and grow future ASIS&T leaders.

Allison Brueckner will present on the various leadership styles which she has
observed and practiced for nine months in Second Life (SL), a 3D virtual
world. Social networks inherently evolve and the evolution of leadership
styles used in SL has varied in degrees of success. Ms. Brueckner will
discuss the technological challenges SL leadership faces, when executing various
projects and tasks. She will also present the social impact this virtual
environment makes on leadership styles. A demonstration in-world, in
Second Life, will also be given.